In 2008 researchers published data that indicated that skeletal remains found in Talheim in southwest Germany indicate that young women were kept prisoner after the men of a clan or tribe were executed around 5,000 BCE. The clash seems to ….
Year: 2010
The Web is filled with pseudo-scientific gibberish that attempts to prove all manner of ideas and claims but there are also some pretty interesting amateur sites that have attempted to assemble known facts in a fairly articulate and unbiased way. ….
Two new research studies shed some insight into settlement patterns across prehistoric Europe and ultimately other continents. In Clash of Cultures — Neolithic Europe vs. Middle Eastern innovators I wrote: In some cases the hunter-gatherers must have clashed with the ….
Europe’s neolithic culture is not very well documented on the World Wide Web. The vast majority of neolithic Websites seem to promote tours or just gloss over oft-published facts and ideas (many of which have since been discarded). You only ….
How ancient is the art of cheese-making? No one really knows because (apparently) the implements used to make ancient cheeses have not survived. Archaeologists suggest that maybe cheese-making began around 5000-5,500 years ago. Perhaps it was a little earlier. Cheese ….
What if they gave a birthday party for one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world and didn’t tell anyone about it. Everyone on Earth probably knows that Hanoi, Vietnam is celebrating its 1,000th year of history this ….
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live in the stone age? Fred and Wilma Flintstone had it easy compared to modern stone age peoples who survive in remote corners of the globe. Scientists speak of “Uncontacted ….
A very interesting news article was published last year, but hardly anyone in the American anti-war community noticed it. It seems that American oil companies had little interest in bidding on Iraqi oil contracts in 2009. The significance of this ….